MightyRaze - Red Bandit

@MightyRaze this one sure looks familiar lol, what kind of battery are you using?

That's awesome! Sounds like it purrs like a baby tiger! Lol

Crazy_Carl wrote:

@MightyRaze this one sure looks familiar lol, what kind of battery are you using?

Standard lawn and garden battery.  Currently not looking into one of the smaller batteries just yet.  It's a bolt on so changes can happen in the future.

Brianator wrote:

That's awesome! Sounds like it purrs like a baby tiger! Lol

Thanks, I need to make a muffler for it.  Something to get a deep tone would be cool, but I'll take anything at this time.

I've actually made a couple more updates to the battery box.

Lookin good!

@MightyRaze I could have shipped you a genuine wheel horse battery box if you wanted one but sometimes it’s more fun to make a new better

@Crazy_Carl, yeah fun to make one.  

All painted and bolted in.





Yeah, I like putting an extra ground to engine block where I can. 

Nice! and if you want a deeper exhaust tone, I highly recommend a Jim Kemp stack, you can find him on Facebook and directly message him

@Crazy_Carl  Nice stack!  I'm not completely sure what my direction for exhaust is at this time.

Somehow I didn't send the text above the other day?

Half the belt guide is done.  Enough that I can refit the belt cover and foot board on for a pic.  I may even get my first test ride this weekend sometime. (hopefully)

Several test rides were made today.  I have the belt system 90% complete at this time.  I didn't do what I was planning on the upper guide since the belt is running pretty true.  I will need to upgrade the brakes in the future.  There is 0 resistance for the brake in reverse.  Forward on the other hand.  Lock them up good!



Another update video for your viewing pleasure.

Nice, those brakes lock up forwards nice!

Ah, the look of metal with good weld penetration.

Excellent!  I think I am done with part 1 of the Red Bandit build!  Clean it up and get it Off-road Ready!  I am ready for my Alpha shakedown.  Biggest thing I see is like @Crazy_Carl has mentioned.  Zero brakes in reverse.  Great brakes forward.  I will need to look into some kind of disk brake upgrade in the future.

This lower transaxle guide is history...



As you can see, there were several attempts as what I was wanting to do.  Anyways, I did get ver 2.0 of that guide created and looks much better.



Here is the whole system.  Not where I was thinking of going with it, but it's where my creativity ended up with inspiration from  @Creepycrawler and  @Crazy_Carl.



I know you see a spring there on the clutch pulley side.  That was just something I was playing with.  I took it back off as it did not seem to be needed. Is an option for later should I do.

Nice to see her up and going! Looks right minty Mighty!

@MightyRaze  you did good. It looks great

It wasn't even trying! You probably could've put your feet up on the hood and kicked back! Lol. Nice to see it doing what you're building it for.

@MightyRaze man that is a really awesome job man keep up the good work and keep em coming.

Got the Red Bandit out today for its first shakedown. Did well! Belt appears 1 inch too small. Shift on the fly is good. Only issue is shifting at stop takes a second before I can shift like that.

This tractor doesn't have the wheel horse belt brake does it?

@RichieRichOverdrive I second this

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

This tractor doesn't have the wheel horse belt brake does it?

Crazy_Carl wrote:

@RichieRichOverdrive I second this

Yes it still does at this point.  I am aware of no reverse brakes.

I saw a lot off speed redduction on the uphill sections, is that belt slipage?

It looks and sounds great @MightyRaze! Hopefully you'll get lucky and can change an idler pulley to a slightly larger one to account for the belt stretch?

PizzaKitty26 wrote:

I saw a lot off speed redduction on the uphill sections, is that belt slipage?

Nah, just the 12hp starting to struggle because I don't have a foot throttle yet, and my hand for the dash throttle was busy with the phone recording.  LOL

The belt slip is not on camera.

Brianator wrote:

It looks and sounds great @MightyRaze! Hopefully you'll get lucky and can change an idler pulley to a slightly larger one to account for the belt stretch?

I actually bought a 1 inch smaller belt that I had trouble shifting with.   I don't think I had it on before I was done with the belt guides.  I may try that and repeat the pounding i gave the other day.